This research attempts to close an important gap in health economics regarding the efficacy of prenatal care and policies designed to improve access to that care, such as Medicaid. We argue that a key beneficiary - the mother - has been left completely out of the analysis. If prenatal care...

This paper contributes to evidence regarding the effectiveness of the Medicaid expansions by focusing on a key beneficiary—the mother—who has previously been overlooked. Using the Natality Detail Files for 1989–1996, we estimate the relationship between Medicaid eligibility and maternal...

"During the conflict in Vietnam, married men with dependents could obtain a deferment from the draft. In 1965, following President Johnson's Executive Order 11241 and a subsequent Selective Service System announcement, the particulars of this policy changed substantially in a way which provided...

In 1983, federal and state governments began taxing the social security benefits of high-income elderly. We develop a conceptual model and use 1981–1986 Current Population Survey data to estimate the policy’s labor supply effects. Our estimates suggest that the approximate 20...

This paper combines frontier functions and switching regressions. This allows economic agents to operate under different efficiency 'regimes,' thus relaxing the assumption that all observations are drawn from the same distribution of inefficiency. The 'switch' is based on sample separation...